# officeTalk — what changed

The version is the version of the language. Its three numbers mean:

- **The first** changes when a file that worked before is now refused, or reads back differently: a word removed or renamed, a rule tightened.
- **The second** changes when something is added that leaves every old file working: a new word, a new question the page asks.
- **The third** changes when only wording, examples, the pages or their look change.

## 1.0.2 — 29 September 2026

- The logo now shows beside the title on both pages, and the tab icon is fetched afresh. Only the pages changed.

## 1.0.1 — 29 September 2026

- Positioned as what it is: a language for talking to AI, so that what you say you want matches what you feel you want. Only the pages changed; every file that worked in 1.0.0 works the same.

## 1.0.0 — 29 September 2026

First public version, at officetalk.teachsite.org.

- Eight words: WANT, FOR, NOT, DONE, UNSURE, HOLD, MATCH, SIGN.
- Six rules: WANT comes first; a WANT is one sentence; every line is a word, a colon and something after it; `MATCH: no` needs what feels different; changing WANT, FOR, NOT or DONE after a MATCH means matching again; no note until the latest reading is matched and signed.
- The page reads a file back, asks what it leaves unclear (fourteen vague words, a word shared by a WANT and a NOT, a missing FOR, DONE or NOT), and turns it into an ordinary prompt from the latest WANT, FOR, NOT and DONE.
- The same rules for the command line in `officetalk.py`.

## Before 1.0.0

officeTalk began on 28 September 2026 as *noting*, a format for writing requests to an AI tool, named after the noting on an office file. Three rounds of tests that day found that no format got better replies than a plain paragraph with the same information. On 29 September it was rebuilt around the student instead of the model: it no longer sends anything anywhere, and its job is to help a person find out what they want. It was renamed officeTalk the same day.